I think I've snapped.
See, I'm doing a themed fortress, meaning every dwarf is named after a character from a certain game me and my friends used to do together. However, I've reached just about 150 dwarves, and now I'm running short on names. I'm reaching out to the smallest of minor characters, who only made brief appearances and then never appeared again. Got done with a twenty-dorf immigrant wave, with the added bonus of half of them being married to each other, meaning some horribly incompatible pairs.
As soon as I'm through there, the elves show up. Every time they've come to my fort, it's ended badly. The first time, I accidentally offered them wood, so I seized half their junk (but they still left with goods I traded earlier). The second, goblin ambushers slaughtered them, so I took what they left behind. The third time was a repeat of the first, except I didn't trade anything successfully, and I seized everything.
Somehow, they still trusted me, but they bring a mixed blessing. They've brought many awesome animals, including a buzzard and a fox to complete a breeding pair (the buzzard was gotten from the previous year), and two rhesus macaques (sadly, both male). They also brought countless pages of cloth and clutches. So, I thought, why even bother dragging goods over when I'm probably gonna accidentally offer a wooden splint or something? Seized 30k worth of junk, animals included. And, yet, I just wasn't satisfied.
s -> a/b/c/d/e -> k -> enter
My military spared no elf and no pack animal. I blew off all the steam there, and realized just how much I wanted a war with them (I once had a world where the dwarves started out at war with them, but then they just teamed up with the goblins, rode in on war jaguars and war elephants, and slaughtered everybody; this time around, I'm much better prepared for ambushes and sieges).
So happy that I've finally reached the point where I can goad the elves into war with me and stand a chance at fighting back. So happy that it's actually pretty easy to kill the merchants now (in an old fort, I tried a ballista, but they all kept ducking or something. I didn't have any magma, either). Let them come, and let them bring their jaguars and elephants. Let them declare a joint siege with the goblins (whom my dying civ has been at war with for two centuries). I've got traps, armored military, and a jazillion puppies that will grow into murderdogs. Blood for the blood god.
Meanwhile, my guard captain beat the crap out of some poor metalsmith with a steel crossbow he probably stole from the goblins, because the mayor's crying over the lack of bismuth anything in the fort. Can't kill the mayor, because she's an artifact creator and the only worthwhile weaponsmith in the fort (in that respect, I'm lucky to have gotten that mood early on, plus an armor mood about a year after it. Now I just need to make steel instead of iron.).
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